In days gone by, every software tester knew about the Micro Focus test tools. Maybe they knew them as the Mercury Tools, the HP tools, or maybe by their product names – LoadRunner, WinRunner, QTP, TestDirector, Quality Center etc.
These days, it’s not so cut and dry.
A quick overview of the tools available.
Choosing the right performance testing tool can be a challenging task for any organisation. With so many options available in the market, it can be difficult to determine which tool will best meet the specific needs of your organisation and will grow with you over time. As a leading provider
LoadRunner Cloud is a performance testing solution for web, mobile, GUI, SAP, Oracle and more. It includes cloud-hosted load generators, flexible licensing models, and global accessibility. All for one inclusive price. As with all Micro Focus products though, LoadRunner Cloud has a strong development backlog. The latest release, LoadRunner Cloud 2022.10, includes
Until last year, LoadRunner Virtual User Days (VUDs) were a convenient and cost-effective way to buy Vusers. VUDs allowed companies to easily ramp up Vuser numbers or run project-based Performance Testing. Unfortunately, Micro Focus stopped selling VUDs in July 2021. We want to know, are you missing them? What Were
On July 1st, Micro Focus announced the product obsolescence of SilkPeformer, the software performance and load testing tool. SilkPerformer customers who are under support have an upgrade path to the class-leading LoadRunner Professional performance testing tool. While SilkPerformer has a rich history going back a couple of decades, this is
I’m going to let you into a little secret about web application performance testing. It doesn’t always do what you probably think it does. More specifically, the figures you get back aren’t always the full story. Sure, performance testing will let you see how quickly your systems are responding. However, it won’t
I’ve been involved in performance testing for 3 decades. During that time, it has evolved massively and continues to change. If you’re a newbie, performance testing can be a tough subject to get your head around. Increasingly, I talk to people at companies who’ve never done proper performance testing, but
Micro Focus has released LoadRunner Professional 2022. The latest version of their class-leading performance test tool. We’ve been through the release notes and selected 3 things you need to know about LoadRunner Professional 2022. If you’re not familiar with LoadRunner Professional, it waspreviously called simply LoadRunner. It has a rich and
Bang!! All of a sudden, one of your production servers goes down. What happens next? How does your system respond? Fortunately, the outage was only in your test environment, at least this time. It was introduced randomly, but deliberately, by chaos engineering. To understand the need for chaos testing, it’s
These days, systems need to be ultra-responsive. You don’t have the time to wait, and neither do your customers and end-users. In this high-speed world, software performance is a must, not a nice-to-have. In the past, you could get away with running a quick performance cycle at the end of a
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